Dragon Age: Origins: Insane Load Times
- Scribbled on November 4th, 2009 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Microsoft Xbox 360, PC, RPG, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF
Those of you who have been playing Dragon Age: Origins may have noticed the insanely long load times that the game has, despite having less-than-cutting edge graphics. Both fans in official forums and reviewers have noticed the disproportionate load times, which are accompanied by severe game slowdown. It seems to be evidence of a bad memory leak.
Most load times run at least two minutes, and sometimes get to a ridiculous five or more minutes, even transversing one part of a forest to another in the same region. And unlike Mass Effect, there’s no in-game action at all to bide time – the gamer is treated to a load screen with the game logo.
Let us know if you’ve been having excruciating load time problems with Dragon Age.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Oh man, I thought I was all alone with this problem. I have a pretty decent pc and still have the 2-5 min load times.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
ya… 2-5 minute loadtimes… and so many dialogue sequences… this game sux.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I’m running it at the recommended specs and I even tried turning everything down to low and 800X600 resolution, still load times were average 30 seconds.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I have a fairly powerful machine, with a quad core processor, 6g of ram, 2 raptors in raid 0, and a GeForce 9800 GPU. There is no reason I should have load times this crazy, nor should I be having graphical slow down and stutter in frame rates. However I seem to be plagued by these problems if I stay in the game for longer than an hour at a time.
November 4th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
The official bioware forums has a semi-fix for the AMD users. It changed my load times from 5-6minutes down to 1.
A good change, but not perfect.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:19 am
While this article seems to be directed at PC versions of the game, I thought that I would post my experience with a console version. I own a Xbox 360 version and most of my load times are under a minute. When compared to other RPGs such as Oblivion or Fallout 3, DragonAge: Origins’ load times are very short.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:00 am
For people who play it on xbox try installing it to your xbox and it actually helps with the graphic hiccups that it had and makes it run a little bit faster
November 5th, 2009 at 11:33 am
The issues seem to come from AMD processors.
November 5th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I experiance load times of about 5-10 seconds. I’ve seen a few comments complaining about load times and I didn’t understand it ‘cs I thought it consistently loads fast.
Although I have had the game crash about 2 or 3 times during a loading screen. then again, maybe it didn’t crash and tabbing out caused it ‘cs I’m normaly used to 5-10 second loading screens.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Yeah I haven’t experienced any load times that long… yet. I’m running on maximum graphics 90% of the time and my load times are only about 10 seconds or so. ??? But yes, have noticed a few random geometric shapes boucing around every now and then
November 5th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
You’re a complete genius Jonah Falcon. I wish I was you. This goes for the great website you post on as well.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Wait, this is just for the PC versions that have 5 minute load times? I’m confused since it says it’s filed in the Xbox360 and PS3 sections too…
November 5th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Some console owners have reported long loading times the longer they play.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
I installed to the 360 HDD and it loads very fast!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:02 am
I run a pretty powerful PC a Geforce GTX 285 on Windows XP with a AMD Phenom II X4 3.0 Ghz Machine. I noticed that when you first start playing its fine, but about a hour or two into it the loading takes a long time to complete. If you shut it off for about 5 minutes and restart it, the loading speeds back up. But having to do it constantly is a bit of a bummer, but beats waiting 10 minutes for a loading scene to complete.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:18 am
Don’t know anything about load times… Run from DVD on XBox and load times are about 3-10s.
On the other hand my PC runs its slow, but I have to mention that my PC is ancient (6 years old without mods)
November 6th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
New patch for PC: 1.01:
http://www.gamestooge.com/2009/11/06/dragon-age-origins-patch-1-01/
November 6th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
[...] it does not fix some of the more glaring issues; that patch will hopefully come soon. Share and [...]
November 7th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Strange,
I have an AMD PII 955 2GB Ram and running on XP SP2. Graphic card an Nvidia 8800GTX
I had no problem whatsoever with load times and seemed very reasonable to me.
I think the problem might be related to the operating system :Vista or W7.
November 7th, 2009 at 3:57 am
I think the problem is with dual vs. quadcore. Sometimes games don’t like extra cores (got to use Affinity to force the game to use 2 instead of 4).
November 7th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I have an AMD phenom quad core processor, 9800GT Graphics card, 2GB ram. I should, in theory, be able to run this at max settings with very few problems, if any. Yet the amounts of in-game lag I get, as well as the load times is just making the game unplayable. I’m really getting into a bit of the game, then the game either slows me down to a crawl and I lose all sense of enjoyment or I have to move to the next area and it breaks the pace of the game because the load time is so long.
While I can say I love the game, I can not play it until they patch it properly.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Do what i do, save real fast then reload the game, fixes the problem completly 99% of the time. It also takes less time to do than waiting for it to load
November 8th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
^((( FIX ^^
Reloading game take ages, and u will loose eventually interest to play game.
I had same problem with dragon age, my game started to lag after 10 minutes, and loading was too long.
I found solution. Problem was in .Net framework. Our windows 7 turned it off automatically. You could write in search command: turn windows features on or off. there u should pick .net framework and activate it. but i did also downloaded netframework 4 beta, so im not sure, which worked to fix game lag. Try this and please comment here if it works. thank you
November 9th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Phenom/Win7/ATi Radeon HD4870/4 Gig RAM.
Currently load times are (if I don’t quit): 4 seconds the first time, 20 seconds the next, then 2 minutes, then 7 minutes, then 20 minutes .
Tried the fix, the TLB fix does not function. The TLB program just hangs while ‘working.’
November 10th, 2009 at 3:17 am
wow, you guys are lucky. it takes an average ~10-15 minutes to load for me. at EVERY loading screen too.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I’m no pro with computers. But if Doyle’s fix works I’d love to try it. I am running Vista 64bit do you think the windows 7 fix will work? has anyone else tried it?
November 11th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Load times are ok for me, though I do notice that it takes longer and longer to load as I play more, but that could be the areas. Longest load would only be 20 seconds though.
I have the problem where everything is in slow motion. Really annoying with speech as the speech goes normally, but won’t go onto the next until waiting for the animation to finish which can take 20 seconds.
I updated my video card drivers (geforce 7800 GT) and loaded the game and it ran fine. YAY!
Now though I will start the game and sometimes it will be slow and I restart my PC and then its ok again. Whack. But at least I can get it running well sometimes. I run in 1680×1050 and settings on medium and its perfect. Great Game.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:16 am
god damned. phenom 945 and 4gb on Win7 32 bit and a 4890. im not getting any in game issues runs fine on full but tive managed to read this article the comments all the adds and write this and Im not seeing this load any quicker. thank goid for steam’s in game web browser. otherwise I may well have stabbed myself to death by now.
November 13th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Windows Frameword 4 Beta 2 Fixed all my problems.
My loading was like… 2-5 mins.
Now they’re 5-10s.
I can assume it worked for me.
(I’m under Vista 32-B, with an AMD Quad Core)
Here’s the link :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9f5e8774-c8dc-4ff6-8285-03a4c387c0db#tm
The “Fix” with Microsoft Framework Beta 2 Worked for me.
My loading was 2-5minutes long (going longer and longer by time)
Now they’re 5-10s MAX.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
.NET Framework 4.0 beta 2 worked for me
November 14th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Unfortunately, not me.
November 14th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Just for clarification… This issue is NOT isolated to AMD processors. I’ve got a Intel Core2Duo laptop running Vista and a Intel Core2Quad desktop running XP. The laptop has no issues at all with load times. I played for 4 hours and load times remained under 1 minute. However, load times on my desktop get increasingly longer (up to 10-15 minutes for some areas).
Developers from BioWare have acknowledged on their forums that it may very well be a memory leak, but they haven’t verified that that is indeed the issue.
Curious how the game could go through testing before it was released an no one noticed or had this issue considering how widespread it is now.
November 14th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Baaaaaad load times so bad its crashing the game to desktop. Quad core amd 8600 gts graph card 8gb ram Vista 64 if I can run Crysis at full specs then I have to wonder why this is messing up so bad.
On my way updating fixes and things hope this works as seems a half decent game just the lag and freeze issues is making it unplayable definitely a memory leak as usualy is fine until about 10mins into the game.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:51 am
I take what I said back. It loads a little faster (5-10 seconds) in the beginning but in 10-20 minutes I see it takes about 2 minutes, and soon enough it crashes to desktop when my 4gb of ram maxes out.
November 15th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Open up your Services and make Microsoft .Net Auto Start. It’ll help with the memory leak issue.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Less than cutting edge graphics? I disagree, Dragon Age is the best looking RPG ever made. That said, the load times don’t make sense. Sometimes even loading small areas takes forever.
November 21st, 2009 at 1:05 am
Could someone post a link to the AMD fix, pls? Thx
November 22nd, 2009 at 5:15 am
I have the same problem. First 15-20 minutes of game play everything is great then the load times get long enough for me to prepare and eat a bowl of cereal.
I am by no means at a handicap with my PC as it is the following specifications:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 OC’d to 3.7Ghz
8gb DDR3 1333MHz RAM
ASUS HD 5870
2 500gb 7200RPM HDDs in RAID
I can also say that it isn’t just isolated to AMD processors as I have a friend that has an i7 920 with 12 gigs of RAM and a 4850×2 GPU and the same problems happen to him.
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 am
*** (Imperfect) FIX ***
Turn off your paging file.
Setup: Core2Quad, ATI 4870, 4GB RAM, Win7.
Before, after about an hour, my load time would go up to around 2 minutes. Soon after, it will go up to 5 and then 10 minutes. The game would start with using 1.2GB of memory, but eventually get to around 2.5GB. Fortunately, it stays there once reached.
After I turned my paging file off, the initial load is around 15-20 seconds, and any subsequent loads are between 5 and 10 seconds.
However, note that this is not a great fix. If you run anything else at the same time, chances are this solution will crash your computer eventually. Use this only if everything else has failed you and you have AT LEAST 4GB of memory.
On the other hand, if you have 8GB, feel free to turn off your paging file all you want
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
One of the best gaming Pc’s I’ve seen, BFG 285GTx’s in raid, and a i7 OC’d @ 3.8GHz, and a raid0 array HD, and my load times still can take 2 minutes…
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:12 pm
I found where the memory leak is in my system. simply uncheck persistant gore. The gore objects dont seem to remove themselves from memory.. ever…….
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:27 am
Running Intel Q9450, 8gb ram, Vista 64, Nvidia 8800GT, high graphics settings. I’ve had NO slowdown issues…
November 24th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
the whole game suck with CPU at 100% , after 4 h playing it will get slow with every loading screen
cool game lot of problems …nothing new
November 25th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Load times were increasing the longer I would play, until eventually the game would crash.
Turning off “Persistent Gore” worked for me! Thx Talavar! Load times are now consistently less than ten seconds.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Ive been fine, but my dad has load times up to 7 minutes.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Man, i takes 25 min to get to the other map
wtf.. man !!!!!
this is insane !!!!!!
November 27th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Hmm turning off persistent gore seemed to do the trick for me as well.
What sucked was even after I turned the game off I would be browsing the web and I would get crazy amounts of hard drive swapping.
November 29th, 2009 at 3:33 am
U get swapping because windows is doing cleanup on the swap file. Its perfectly normal…
November 29th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I tried turning off the “Persistent Gore” option and surprisingly it works!
Many thanks Talavar!
November 29th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I’ve also been having the horrid load times. I’m reading that the persistent gore turned off might help, going to try it now. The wait times have been driving me mad. Takes away from the game a lot. Hopefully the memory leak is there, and will be gone.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I had two minute load times until I turned off the persistant gore option in the game. Now load times are 3-5 seconds. Much much better.
November 30th, 2009 at 12:42 am
I tried that gore option. Didn’t work for me.
November 30th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Turning off persistent gore help a bit and extends the time you can play without restarts but only with an hour or two.
running all maxed without any other problems.
q6600
4GB hyperX 1066MHz
HD4870 1GB
November 30th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
There definately is a memory leak in this game. I got a decent gaming rig that can run DA:O on max settings smoothly.
When I start playing loading times for areas are around 10-20 seconds. After one or two hours of gaming it can take up to 5 minutes for an area to load (even one I’ve recently visited).
I think it has less to do with the amount of time played than the amount of new areas you enter however. Once I just left the game on for two hours before playing again and loading times were still short.
Again: loading times start off very short (20s) and become longer the more I play/enter new areas. The max time it took to load was 9 minutes for an area in the elf forest (after a 6 hour gaming session).
December 1st, 2009 at 9:05 pm
It worked fine for me until the update. After that, after some gameplay time, the loading time gets tiresomely long. Every time the loading screen comes up i’ll have to wait a few minutes…
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Real bad lag from load times on the desktop Quad core Phenomon, 8 gb ram and 8600 gts graphs card. System runs Crysis with no problems so there should be absolutley no issues with this game but alas lag from hell. Funny how my laptop runs this perfectly with no issues using only integrated ati onboard graphics.
If someone finds a fix please please email me so sick of this now. Tried tweaking affinities downloaded patch (game refused to load at all after patch) and updated all drivers still no luck.
December 4th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
load times after 2-3 hours of gaming is very loong… any ideas how to fix this??
December 5th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
My best guess is the game has issues with threads clashing and deadlocking each other and activity throttles and timeouts not working properly. I’ve got a Core i7, new Radeon 4890, 6gb of triple channel ram, and an Intel SSD the game is installed on. Watching the resource monitoring in windows 7 x64 shows LONG periods of no activity of any kind coming from the Dragon Age process. So, it’s not your computer, it’s their shoddy coding.
December 5th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Running into the same issues with horribly long load times. This is PC version with 4 GB ram and quad cord AMD phenom in my rig. It seemed fine initially, but after playing for a few hours, the load times (between areas) can take up to 5 minutes!? Cut the persistant gore, decreased screen size to 800×600, etc…but it still runs like Sh*t. What the heck is going on??
December 6th, 2009 at 2:54 am
at me , normally it take 2 minutes,,
after installing DLC, and many mods,, my hdd didnt process load screen(red LED = off) for 2-4 minutes, after that hdd LED turn red again for 2 minute,,
completely it took 6 minutes load screen for me,,
December 9th, 2009 at 7:06 am
I would consider this: some programmer and or project manager agreed to this so called lag issue to create false nEed for better systems. When u look at the bigger picture for games like crysis, those kind of games will some how create the need to upgrade ur rigs so companies will have special interests in this kind of business practice. Bug company like this I expect high standards. Not just limited to content but this covert operation. This theory may seam extreme and it is only if the whole world sees half of the stuff happening behind closed doors. Large corporation are evil but then the people don’t see it from their angle and some do have a valid dilemma.
December 12th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Does anyone know if a patch can correct the load times or is there something I can tweek on my computer to fix it.
December 12th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Not yet. There have been two patches, neither have addressed the issue.
December 15th, 2009 at 1:49 am
USING PATCH 1.02: I think I found a fix that might be only working for me.
First of all, I’ve never loaded past 40 seconds.
I’ve been using the “Game Launcher” (The one with the menu [play, configuration, support, website]) and click play in order to start the game.
Well, I recently found out about the “dev console” and followed the instructions.
Instead of using the game launcher, I had to use the “exe”!
I had to type in the enabledeveloperconsole on the target line and use the EXE whenever I want to play.
Voila my loading times were 3-10 seconds!
Although, I’m not sure whether its the dev console, or using the exe itself is making the load times shorter.
Works for me though
December 19th, 2009 at 6:20 am
hey guys..do as aedan cousland said.
run from exe not from launcher.works for me..
thanks bro
December 24th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I’ve got a high-end i7 6GB with a factory-overclocked GTX 275. The game is definitely leaking memory as the slowdown simply gets worse the more I move from area to area. Strangely, I don’t recall this happening earlier, it’s only started to get bad once I advanced in the story – possibly because I used to run it directly from the game EXE (see Aedan’s post, above). Loading-Screen Slowdowns are sometimes (but not always) accompanied by actual frame-rate drops. I’m going to try running without the launcher and see if that helps any.
December 27th, 2009 at 10:05 am
if you have windows 7 just go to properties and tell it to run game in windows xp mode cut my load times from 2 mins to 3 secs
January 1st, 2010 at 8:32 pm
The load screen is up for 10-15 minutes on my computer(and sometimes longer). It feels like forever!
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
I did not have any problem with load times until I patched up to the latest patch, then the game just seemed to want to take forever to load.
Before I patched, load times were less than 5 seconds, and this was with maxed graphics on a $600 PC
Hopefully the next patch resolves this issue.
(PC, BTW)
January 4th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
[...] This is a game issue. Don’t believe me? It’s true on PC and XBox 360. These guys noticed. As did these guys. And these reviewers all noticed it. It’s a fact. It’s not a specs [...]
January 5th, 2010 at 3:50 am
Why hasn’t this been resolved? How can a company let a serious issue like this drag on for so long? It’s unprofessional, I’m going to think twice before I decide to buy from bioware again. Too bad, I really liked the baldur’s gate series.
January 5th, 2010 at 9:22 am
[...] and new party members are fairly exciting, but what would be even more exciting is a patch to fix the serious technical issues of the [...]
January 7th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
I have tried everything that has been mentioned here and on Bioware Tech Forums and nothing is helping. One thing I noticed but it could just be a coincidence and that is after waiting for over a minute I use my mouse and start clicking and hitting my enter key. After a few seconds it comes up. *shrugs*
January 13th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Turn off persistent gore. I have three GeForce GTX 295 and 24Gb Ram on an i7 Quad Core processor. Same issues. Try patching the game as well.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Running Windows 7, 8800 GTS, 4gb memory, and consistently 5-10 minute load times. it feels like and may literally be more time loading than playing.
just bought the game so i’m trying desperately not to get spurned.
January 16th, 2010 at 3:33 am
So, every 100 years is an age in the lore of the game, right?
Maybe they should have called the game Loading Age.
January 16th, 2010 at 9:36 am
Please help me!
I keep having trouble playing DA:O.
Not the loading times for me, but I keep having lag every 60 sec. in the begining, but after 1 hour of playing, it gets worse, every 10 sec.
Might this be a bad download? Does anyone else experience this?
January 19th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
this is bull crap we all need speed loader and bioware should supply us because this game is aggravating.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
In Bioware’s defense, memory leaks are the hardest bugs to squash.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
and they still managed a superior ps3 version with lower loading times.
January 20th, 2010 at 2:18 am
SUPERIOR? (laugh) Maybe you should ask Bioware why you can’t move the camera to overhead, or why they had to lower the resolution, or why the framerate is far worse than the PC’s etc. Dude, you’re talking out of your depth and out of your ass.
Trust me, I talked to BioWare at length at Comic Con and at E3. The load times are only bad on some PC versions – others have zero problems.
No PS3 will ever be superior to a PC. Ever.
January 20th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
vs 360 retard.
January 20th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Uh huh. People in this thread own the PC version. Learn to read someday, Sony fanboy.
January 20th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
lol @ fanboy. Look in your own backyard before throwing stones into others.
If this is PC related, why log it under 360 and PS3.
Pathetic journalism Jonah…but no surprise.
January 21st, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Im running an AMD Quad Core 945 OC to 3.5 GHZ, 4 gigs of RAM @ 1600 and 9800gtx vc. my load times are great. 20 seconds on average.
January 21st, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Congrats. I still have load time hell.
February 4th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
yeah, in the beginning it was fine, but now that im about 60% in the game, the loading times is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!
if the story line wasn’t as good, id kick it up. . . . . .
February 4th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I’ve noticed that the load times get progressively worse the further you are in the game. I’m pretty anal about keeping redundant savegame files for Bioware games thanks to the epic battle with their crappy scripting in NWN2, so I went back a bit and it wasn’t just my imagination. The further in you are, the faster the game grinds to a halt.
In fact, there are excessively long times of no activity at all anywhere during some of those loads. The hard drive isn’t even being accessed. (Which initially made me suspect copy protection problems.)
February 7th, 2010 at 11:55 am
At the start of the game my load times were fine, 30 seconds or so. Now that i’m a good bit through the game loading takes an average of 3-5mins.
It spoils the game experience, especially in a game where you are required to constantly change to different areas of the game.
In order to complete a 2 minute quest i’ve had to go through 15mins of loading screens while travelling.
February 14th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
The load times become painfully long in short order, even on an insanely high-end Alienware. I find myself playing in windowed mode and hitting F5 to quick-save before leaving any area, so that I can just kill the process by closing the window. It’s sad, but restarting the game and resuming from last save is much faster than waiting.
February 19th, 2010 at 7:10 am
yeah loading time become insanely high with longer gameplay. i think we shud restart the game after every hour of play to get rid of long loading shit.thats what i do.
February 21st, 2010 at 1:20 pm
well the whole persitent gore fixed it for me. don’t know bout the others though..
February 21st, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Hello i also buy Dragon Age: Origins,and i also have a very lond time of loading.
If i start the game for the 10-20 minutes playing i have a fast load time,but if i play 1-3 hours of gameplay i experienced a very load time,and the game also runs very slow.
I have a intel i5 4gb ddr3 gtx260 super overclocked.We neea a patch to resolve this situation quick.I think the game is not optimized well.
February 21st, 2010 at 8:17 pm
ok.. the persitent gore did not help at all, maybe for a few minutes, now im not even long into the game and it craps up on me. this is so frustrating.
February 23rd, 2010 at 6:10 pm
I have a pretty good PC and I’ve read that it has something to do with accepting quests and not doing them. There are so many ideas of what could be wrong and I’ve tried everything so far that I’ve read here to no avail. These loading times make me wanna take a nap every time. Great game, terrible tech issues. Makes me feel like a hamster is powering my computer. /sigh….guess I’ll go play World of Warcraft.
February 24th, 2010 at 12:41 am
My solution is. save your game exit the game all the way restart it everything is good.
February 24th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Ugh. We know. But it takes just as long to save, exit, boot, and reload.
February 25th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Gee, and I thought I was the only one suffering this problem. I just recently purchased the game 5 weeks and got about close to where you get to do the Lands Meet Quest and all the problems started happening. Frequent game crashes using and longer loader times the futher you get in the game. I was using Windows XP SP3, I couldn’t stop the crashing ever since than, even when I reinstalled Windows XP and the game. So I installed Windows Vista and started using that and my game crashes when away when I loaded the save game…How Odd.. But the loading times didn’t get any faster, rather slower. About 4-6 mins screen loading. I hope Bioware comes out with a patch or something if they want to keep their fan base. But since Bioware is owned by EA it figures, anything EA touches and everything goes down hill from there..
February 27th, 2010 at 7:59 am
To cut off the long loading time in dragon age just save and shutdown the game then restart the loading time will like 5-10 sec and when it became to get longer just do the same thing
February 28th, 2010 at 5:03 am
Hell no. We shouldn’t have to exit then start the game again multitudes of time due to a screw up from the dev. they need to fix this. it’s been a problem since release and it should be fixed especially with an expansion pack coming
March 6th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
I am confused by those posting that they have a “powerful” system yet they list the AMD phenom cpu. If you are running an amd cpu, you do NOT have a very powerful system. Simple as that…moving on…
March 6th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
I am confused by those of you posting that you have a ‘powerful’ system, yet you list the amd phenom aas your cpu. If you are running an amd cpu, you do NOT have a ‘powerful’ system and stop claiming that you do. Simple as that, fact, nothing more needed to be said here…moving on…
March 6th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
For most games, DAO included, the CPU is not so relevant. For the purposes of running this game, the Phenom (II) and its derivatives can indeed be considered plenty powerful.
March 14th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
upgrade/upgradenow: nice double post, fail troll nub
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs),~2.7GHz
Memory: 6144MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 6136MB RAM
Page File: 1911MB used, 10356MB available
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 280
Display Memory: 3817 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1005 MB
Shared Memory: 2811 MB
I’m feeling everyone pain. 2 hours into the game and its a 5 – 20 minute wait between traveling, and map change.
March 28th, 2010 at 8:15 am
yes, i notice this aswell, i have a standard multi-task purpose pc, but good with handling high end games, the loading took 1-2 min. i notice it when im in denerim and entering the house and getting out. its really annoying.
April 5th, 2010 at 4:24 am
Yes, there is a bug associated with the loading, but why assume it’s a memory leak? And NO, as far as bugs go, memory leaks are nowhere near as hard to debug compared to driver inconsistencies, rounding errors between different types of processors, multithreaded deadlocking and so on. Maybe stick to what you know?
April 5th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
all u need for these “epic” loading time is a good book. I had finish my first novel today, yet had not the game.
April 15th, 2010 at 7:02 am
Geez guys, i’ve been reading all this posts and im affraid of further playin’… i’m at the start of the game(loads fast though) but alreadyi had 1 crash to desktop. I installed all dlc there is and my rig is core2duo e6750-2.6ghz~3.4ghz, gtx260, 4gig ocz ram…and i deliberetly started to play this game now, yet after all this time the game isn’t patched rite, just remember bioware announced this game some 5 years ago….
April 26th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
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May 2nd, 2010 at 6:02 am
I have the answer, but it’s not cheap.
I only have a Phenom II 940 but I have in all honestly not had load times of more than 5 seconds, usually 2 or 3, but that’s down to using a SSD.
May 9th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
The issue I’m running into is nore load times going from one area to another, but one specific area.
I’m trying to leave Loathmir (sp?) and everytime I click yes to leaving the area I get the loading screen and nothing. No matter how long I wait same thing. I can’t even alt tab out. Instead I have to hit ctrl alt del and bring up task manager to kill the app.
Not sure if anyone else has run into this. I purchased this through Steam and I’m beginning to think I wasted my money.
I am contemplating starting over as I’m not happy with my character and oddly he lost his beard at some point during my playing him.
May 23rd, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Hey Netdog, I’m having a similar problem. Everything was going fine until I saved in Lothering … now I can’t restore my save, it just gives me a never ending loading screen. I can’t alt-tab out either.
If I launch the task manager I can see the memory usage just keep climbing and climbing. It gradually climbed from 450MB to nearly 1.5GB. Finally, I just killed it.
Apparently Bioware isn’t really doing much to fix the memory leak … it’s existed for over 7 months now, and still isn’t fixed.
June 3rd, 2010 at 2:14 pm
360 version here. Rather disappointing; buggy, stuttering, glitchy and ubsurdly long load times (among other issues). Installing to the 360HDD does cut most load times to ~1min… not great but better than 3-5min.
Hell I’ve found if I repeatedly press A in a hurry for the load confirmations, It loads the completely wrong savefile. Full of suprises lol
June 15th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
i’ve have the ultimate pc for gaming, work superb, but dragon age origins, is first time is so dam slow, it the developer fault! anyway pc games are like that all the time!
June 18th, 2010 at 5:42 am
I just beat Dragon Age: Origins for the first time. I just saw a small cutscene where Alistair was hailed as the king, when duncan says “but at what cost?” And then it went to a loading screen. I’m gonna guess and say that was over HALF AN HOUR AGO. It’s still loading 0_0
June 25th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Well, after reading this post, i did the follow things:
Have patch 1.02a instaled.
Download Frame Net.4
Have Presistent Gore bisabled
Started the game for the .exe, not the launcher.
I had loading about 4-6 min, now is about 25-40secs. I hope some of you people could manage this problem, because this game worth to be played.
June 25th, 2010 at 11:41 am
This game is not 64bit regardless what the specs claim, it doesn’t make use of multi core processing only frees up memory addressing at run time. You eventually run across problems either in conversations, battles or entering/exiting cells. It causes a huge lag and sometimes having you to reboot the game itself. EA is aware of it and they haven’t patched it.
July 12th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Bioware disappoints me. They don’t stand behind their games it seems. Not enough movement on this problem from my perspective.
July 15th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
i ve got i7 intel 960 hd5850 6 gb ram vs i ve the same problem first times its ok but after 1 hours loadings become loong and slowin on fights etc lol my pc can kick this game but game makes us angry lmao
July 15th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
I just had a 10 minute loading screen from Redcliff to Denerim, it was insane my computer was 2200 dollars and thats bull shit
August 31st, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Well I was doing it like this:
1. Start loading the game
2. Pickup my Windows mobile, and play Guardians … till the loading is complete
3. Pause Guardians, and play DAO.
4. Repeat above steps if need to reload.
Now I’ll try the other fix as suggested and see if it works for my 64-bit Win7.
August 31st, 2010 at 1:37 pm
I upgraded to Win7 and the superlong loading screens are gone.